The NASA X-43 is an experimental unmanned scramjet that set a world speed record in 2004 for a jet-powered aircraft with a speed of Mach 9. 7, nearly at an altitude of about.

Martin-Baker ejector seats were fitted to prototype and production aircraft from the late 1940s, and the first emergency use of such a seat occurred in 1949 during testing of the jet-powered Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 52 experimental flying wing.

The base's primary purpose is undetermined, however, based on historical evidence, it appears to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems.

* Bell XFL Airabonita, an experimental shipboard interceptor aircraft

Blue Steel emerged as a pilotless, winged aircraft roughly the size of the experimental Saunders-Roe SR. 53 interceptor, with clipped delta wings and small canard foreplanes.

An experimental re-creation was conducted using the same aircraft hijacked by Cooper in the same flight configuration, piloted by Scott.

The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.

* Kalinin K-7, a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s

The machine had insufficient range ( 1440 km ) to operate over Britain, but had machine guns for use against aircraft and experimental 80 kg bombs.

* 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U. S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound-over the high desert of Southern California-and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.

During the same year, the Soviet military engineer P. K. Oschepkov, in collaboration with Leningrad Electrophysical Institute, produced an experimental apparatus, RAPID, capable of detecting an aircraft within 3 km of a receiver.

Once inside, Blazkowicz destroys the V-2 on its launchpad and fights his way out of the facility towards an airbase filled with experimental jet aircraft.

The Dornier Do 31 got as far as three experimental aircraft before cancellation in 1970.

The USA would incorporate contra-rotating turboprop engines, such as the ill-fated Allison T40, into a series of experimental aircraft during the 1950s, but none would be adopted into service.

Because US aircraft need to be flown for some time before they are certified, there is a provision for an experimental airworthiness certificate.

FAA experimental aircraft are restricted in operation, including no overflights of populated areas, in busy airspace or with unessential passengers.

It was developed from the Yakovlev Yak-36 experimental aircraft in the 1970s.

The first Wankel rotary-engine aircraft was the experimental Lockheed Q-Star civilian version of the United States Army's reconnaissance QT-2, basically a powered Schweizer sailplane, in 1968 or 1969.

Wankel engines are also becoming increasingly popular in homebuilt experimental aircraft, such as the ARV Super2 which can be re-engined with the MidWest AE series aero-engine.

* December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.

Rocket sleds were used extensively by the United States early in the Cold War to accelerate equipment considered too experimental ( hazardous ) for testing directly in piloted aircraft.

Testing ejection seat systems and technology prior to their use in experimental or operational aircraft was a common application of the rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base.

Currently, flying electric aircraft are mostly experimental demonstrators, including manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Scramjet aircraft are still in the experimental stage.

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

As an experimental problem solving platform, the project showcases and collects ideas at scale with local and global impact.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

The French experimental sail powered hydrofoil Hydroptère is the result of a research project that involves advanced engineering skills and technologies.

KL1, or Kernel Language 1 is an experimental AND-parallel version of KL0 developed for the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer project.

In May 2010, the Subutai Corporation, of which Stephenson was named chairman, announced the production of an experimental multimedia fiction project called The Mongoliad, which centered around a narrative written by Stephenson and other speculative fiction authors.

At the Walters Art Museum where the palimpsest is now conserved, the project has focused on experimental techniques to retrieve the remaining fifth.

Volume Magazine-the collaborative project by Archis ( Amsterdam ), AMO Rotterdam and C-lab ( Columbia University NY )-is a dynamic experimental think tank devoted to the process of spatial and cultural reflexivity.

Jem Finer went into experimental music, playing a big part in a project known as " Longplayer ", a piece of music designed to play continuously for 1, 000 years without repeating itself.

This multi-national experimental archeology project saw 70 crew members sail the ship back to its home in Ireland.

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

LMJ, the French project, has seen its first experimental line achieved in 2002, and is due for completion in 2012.

This was an eccentric, experimental project, in contrast to all other soundtracks, as the composer was allowed to convey general moods and themes, rather than having to write music to flow for specific scenes.

Cooney stated, " From the beginning, we — the planners of the project — designed the show as an experimental research project with educational advisers, researchers, and television producers collaborating as equal partners ".

The Great Fire of London ( 1989 ), The Loop ( 1993 ), and Mathematics ( 2012 ) are the first three volumes of a long, experimental, autobiographical work known as " the project " ( or " the minimal project "), and the only volumes of " the project ", at present, to have been translated into English.

Hopewell is home to an experimental renewable energy project called The Hopewell Project, which uses solar power to generate hydrogen that is used to provide 100 % of a home's heating, cooling and electrical needs.

iWarp was an experimental parallel supercomputer architecture developed as a joint project by Intel and Carnegie Mellon University.

O ' Brien took a small amount of his unfinished Rocky Horror to director Jim Sharman, who decided he wanted to direct it at the small experimental space upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre which was used as a project space for new work.

Only the covered wings and tubular fuselage framework of the J 3 were ever completed, before the project was abandoned-the slightly later Junkers J. I armored sesquiplane had its all-metal wings and horizontal stabilizer made in the same manner as the J 3's wings had been, along with the experimental and airworthy all-duralumin Junkers J 7 single seat fighter design, which led to the Junkers D. I low-wing monoplane fighter introducing all-duralumin aircraft structural technology to German military aviation in 1918.

They started in 1998 as an experimental project and they had an unexpected success they continued until 2000 through North and Latin America.